Johann Baptist Bohadsch
Johann Baptist Bohadsch , Czech Jan Křtitel Boháč (born June 14, 1724 in Schinkau , † October 16, 1768 in Prague ), was a Bohemian - Habsburg physician and naturalist.
Life
Bohadsch was in 1751 at the University of Salzburg Dr. med. after having studied in Padua , Montpellier , Paris and at various German universities. In the period from 1752 to 1768 he was first associate and later full professor of natural history at the University of Prague . From 1761 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Bohaj wrote numerous medical and scientific writings. He prepared a comprehensive report on a study trip through the Salzkammergut , which, among other things, dealt with botany, salt mining and salt extraction as well as fossil finds. This was only published posthumously by Ignatz von Born in 1782 . The report is one of the oldest on the collection of fossils in the Salzkammergut.
Publications (selection)
- Mr. Johann Baptista Bohadsch Description of some less well known sea animals and their characteristics [...]. Translated from Latin and with some additional comments by Nathanael Gottfried Leske, Dresden 1776, (online at Google Books) .
- Mr. Johann Bohadsch report on his trip to the Upper Austrian Salzkammer district in 1763 on the highest orders . Treatises of a private company in Bohemia, on the inclusion of mathematics, patriotic history and natural history. Promoted to print by Ignatz Edlen von Born, 5, Prague 1782, pp. 991–227.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Bohadsch, Johann Baptist . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 26 ( digitized version ).
- Victor Carus : Bohadsch, Johann Baptist . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 59.
- Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae. Supplementum (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15a). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0948-2 , p. 153 ( PDF; 486 kB )
- Karel Posmourny, Harald Lobitzer: Johann Baptist Bohadsch - an early scientific researcher of the Salzkammergut . In: Reports of the Federal Geological Institute 56, 2001 online (PDF; 232 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Johann Baptist Bohadsch at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 31, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bohadsch, Johann Baptist |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boháč, Jan Křtitel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian physician and natural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1724 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Žinkovy |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1768 |
| Place of death | Prague |